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10-01-2024, 12:23 PM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,209
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The 2024 Halloween Horror Comics Thread!
Boys & Ghouls, it's that month again! When October rolls around, I grab my shovel & dig up what I can pertaining to the season of spookiness - I'll be away from the 7th - 12th, but I'll be back.
I'm starting with a theme I explored once before, but since then, I've found even more.
Comic Horror Hosts (more obscure then ever)
1) The Gravedigger from Premier Comic's Horror From The Tomb.
Here are 3 from Asylum Press' line of Horror Comics
Madam Clizia
Forlock The Warlock
Mr. Karswell
Professor Coffin
From 1954's Mysterious Adventures,
The Corpse
El Siniestro's Doctor Mortis
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10-02-2024, 12:00 PM
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Columnist Thunder Mod
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Welcome back, Jerry!
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10-02-2024, 12:35 PM
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The Watchers
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: High Hrothgar
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Always look forward to this yearly thread. Love the aesthetic of the old horror comics. I recently bought the Eerie Archives in paperback volumes 1-6. I'll probably get the Creepy Archives next.
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10-02-2024, 04:57 PM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mister H
Always look forward to this yearly thread. Love the aesthetic of the old horror comics. I recently bought the Eerie Archives in paperback volumes 1-6. I'll probably get the Creepy Archives next.
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I have the 1st 10 Creepy Archives. Wish I'd continued. I'm now buying the ppbk Eerie. Great!
Here we go with day 2.
(Sorry, small one0
Impy -
21 appearances in Haunted Tales.
Dr. Graves fr. his own mag. Charleton Comics
Mr. Dredd (on the left) Fr. Ghostly Tales -
Hottie alert! - Countess Von Bludd - fr. Scary
Tales
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10-03-2024, 09:54 AM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,209
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Day 3 of Horror Hosts -
1950's Mail-In photo-portraits of the 3 ec Horror Hosts. Boy, would I love these in my collection. They pop-up on ebay from time to time -
One of my favorites! Doctor Death from This Magazine Is Haunted
The Man In Black - A Thrill Adventure Comic
The Ol' Digger from Chamber Of Darkness
The Made-Up Man from Scream Comics
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10-03-2024, 10:19 AM
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The Watchers
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: High Hrothgar
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I've seen the mail in pics before but I haven't seen The Ol' Digger before.
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10-03-2024, 11:48 AM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,209
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Mister H - You have no idea how many horror hosts I've had to skip on account of me not finding them on Yahoo. Maybe you could see what you can do -
The Made-Up Man from Screaming Horror #1
Mr. Dredd fr. Ghostly Tales
Black Witch fr. itch's Cauldron
Retribution fr. Web Of Mystery
The Bone Man fr. Horror From The Tomb
Freddie Demon, Victor Vampire & Garry Ghoul from Terrific Publ. Comic Media's books.
The Coffin Keeper fr. Mysterious Adventures
I have examples of all of them in trades & reprints but taking photos, establishing them the zapping them here is just a big ol' pia.
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10-04-2024, 08:56 AM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,209
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Pulp Magazines, which proceeded Comic magazines by about 60 years in their heyday, more-or-less set the stage for our Golden age in comics. With Pulp, it was always about the covers, grabbing a reader's attention with the fantastic. Sci-fi, heroic, yes, Superheroes, & crime-busters, all was represented in Pulp. My own Dad described his Doc Savage & The Shadow collections (which ere swiped out of his tent on a Boy Scout camping trip) as if they were his boyhood treasure. Horror was right there too. Who doesn't love a scary tale & with Pulp, you could terrify with the cover. Here are some great examples. I'm kicking off with my favorite The Shadow cover & 3 early 30's covers from Clayton Magazines' Strange Tales Of Mystery And Terror. -
The Shadow, The Creeping Death. From his own magazine.
A glorious cover from back in 1932. A precursor of the horror to come for the next 20 years.
Damned Vampires! Even back in the early 30's they were a p.i.a.!
October
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10-04-2024, 09:03 AM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,209
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Thrilling Detective magazine would have been spooky reading while getting a shine.
"Nyaaaaa!"
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10-05-2024, 08:51 AM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,209
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Last day posting for a week. The beach calls, but I'll be back w/ lots more Pulp-Horror!
"Honey? You still in the basement?"
A kiss of Betty Davis. Great title!
"Yeeeehawww."
"Zzzzz...nyum nyum nyum nyum"
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